Posted by Adam on 05/31/06 13:05

On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:20:02 -0500, KCC wrote:

>I apologize if this is not the correct group to ask this question but I
>can't find another newgroup that might help and I am having no luck at the
>Mambo or Joomla forums.
>
>I am looking for a content managament system and these two seem to fit the
>bill for what I am looking for but I am a little confused as to the real
>differences between mambo and Joomla. I appears as though the original
>Mambo developers all resigned in late 2005 and decided to start up Joomla.
>Does anyone have an opinion (without flaming please) of which would be the
>best way to go in the long run? Does anyone on this forum have any
>experience with these two systems that can give me an honest appraisal.
>
>The site in question would be a large database of resourses (everything from
>weblinks to various resources, code snippets, and objects, etc). I would be
>creating the weblink resource first and adding sections as time progresses.
>Weblinks would have a variety of categories with subcategories as would the
>other future resources.
>
>Thank you, and if this is OT for this newsgroup please point me to the
>correct one.

I don't think it's *too* far off topic ;-) Both are PHP based and, at
some stage, you're definitely going to get your hands dirty trying to
tweak the output. A good background in PHP and basic database design
would help a lot.

More so, though, is a sound knowledge of CSS - to get your site to not
look like yet another Joomla/Mambo template clone.

Anyway ... back to your question <!!>.... I tried out many of the
currently popular CMS systems a while back and settled for either
Mambo or Joomla as they (both) offered greater design/layout
flexibility. I don't do "blog" style sites.

After a while of running both in tandem, I settled on Joomla - as it
appeared to be "going somewhere" - and Mambo seemed to be floundering.
Not very scientific, but that's the impression I got from the level of
support for components/modules writers. Most were switching horses -
to Joomla.

Both are slightly buggy (I found Mambo wouldn't behave at all on my
WinXP development system).

I'd definitely go for Joomla.

Adam.

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